[linux-audio-user] Re: VMWare for Music

[ross at jose.lug.udel.edu]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 04:58:35PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> Why can't you use Wine again?

It looks like contemporary versions of Wine have some oddness in their
handling of fonts.

If I do a default installation of Cakewalk, it crashes upon startup.
I read on winehq.com this is often due to font mapping issues that
have failed to install Cakewalk's music notation TrueType Font.  The
suggested solution is to copy the .ttf to $wineroot/windows/fonts.

After doing this copy, Cakewalk starts and runs properly!
Unfortuantely, it uses the musical notation font for everything.  I've
tried a couple of font hacks to get around this.  Anything I do that
makes the default Windows fonts available again, BOOM, Cakewalk
crashes on startup.


And no, I didn't submit a bug to Wine - it's documented in their app
database, and has been since last Feb.  The point of me writing music
is to write *music*, not software.  Everytime I try to get my
composition environment running again, I end up getting sucked into
the software, so I thought I'd try a different tact.  I'm trying to
avoid moving back to dual booting, or buying another computer.

At this point, Alexandre's work is my last hope.

-- 
Ross Vandegrift
ross at lug.udel.edu

"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who
make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians
have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine
man in the bonds of Hell."
	--St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37